Open thread 6/10/23
I think he means vinyl flooring rather than linoleum, which came earlier. And afghans certainly were around earlier, too. But anyway:
The New Neo
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I think he means vinyl flooring rather than linoleum, which came earlier. And afghans certainly were around earlier, too. But anyway:
Thanks Neo : ) Having been away with Uncle Sam 60’s and 70’s I learned things. Always been fond of traditional Japanese decor myself.
My last Summer before I started graduate school, I help my father do some renovations on a 100 year old house. One of the things we did was put a new floor in the kitchen. To do this, we had to remove linoleum covering the floorboards with a shovel. We ended up removing 4 layers of such flooring- one had just been glued on top of the other over the decades.
For a big examination the 1970s abominable interiors (the Smart Set?) see Interior Desicrations by James Lileks
https://lileks.com/institute/interiors/index.html
Plywood is still wood, but Formica® will never be granite.
Lived in a 1950s prefab house (Manhattan Project legacy) for about a year. They are still in use, talk about grandfathering and building codes!
neo:
I just noticed in your picture you have a volume of “The Last Lion” by William Manchester. He is one of my favourite authors. His “A world Lit Only By Fire” is a great work.
His “Goodbye Darkness”; an account/auobiography of his experiences in the USMC in WW2 is perhaps the best war memoir I have ever read.
I have “The Last Lion”, and a few other biographies of Churchill.
Perhaps it is the influence of David Irving and Pat Buchanan, but I don’t much like Churchill.
Roger:
Why anyone would let the abominable David Irving influence them in anything – except to get as far away as possible – is beyond me. See this.
Manchester is great, though.
those designers were consuming a lot of drugs I take it,
They forgot the avocado color kitchen appliances.
Plywood is still wood, but Formica® will never be granite.
We had a Formica-covered table in the kitchen of the house where I grew up; the laminate was a hideous yellow color patterned (not very convincingly) to look like linen. I was delighted to find out in high school Latin that formica is the Latin word for “ant”– it’s still the biological term for a genus of wood ants; the type species is the European wood ant, Formica rufa.
Robert Frost, who knew his Latin, refers to the ant colony in his poem “Departmental” as “Formic” in the second half of the poem:
. . . Ants are a curious race;
One crossing with hurried tread
The body of one of their dead
Isn’t given a moment’s arrest–
Seems not even impressed.
But he no doubt reports to any
With whom he crosses antennae,
And they no doubt report
To the higher-up at court.
Then word goes forth in Formic:
‘Death’s come to Jerry McCormic,
Our selfless forager Jerry.
Will the special Janizary
Whose office it is to bury
The dead of the commissary
Go bring him home to his people.
Lay him in state on a sepal.
Wrap him for shroud in a petal.
Embalm him with ichor of nettle.
This is the word of your Queen.’
And presently on the scene
Appears a solemn mortician;
And taking a formal position,
With feelers calmly a-twiddle,
Seizes the dead by the middle,
And heaving him high in air,
Carries him out of there.
No one stands round to stare.
It is nobody else’s affair.
It couldn’t be called ungentle,
But how thoroughly departmental.
https://www.poeticous.com/frost/departmental
Last, “formication” is the medical term (in use since the 18th century) for the sensation of ants or other bugs crawling on or under the skin when nothing is actually present. You just have to be careful not to replace the “m” with an “n.”
RIP, Ted Kaczynski– the Unabomber was found dead in his prison cell this morning– he was 81 and had been ill for some time.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/10/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-found-dead-in-jail-cell/
Formic acid (from Latin formica ‘ant’ – as noted above), systematically named methanoic acid, is the simplest carboxylic acid, and has the chemical formula HCOOH. It is an important intermediate in chemical synthesis and occurs naturally, most notably in some ants which gives the stinging sensation when bitten.
PA+Cat:
Formication sounds like Morgellons disease.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/morgellons-disease/ART-20044996
Another case of nothing new under the sun (or skin)?
om– Morgellons disease is one subtype of delusional parasitosis, also known as Ekbom’s syndrome (named for the Swedish neurologist who published case studies of the delusion in 1937). From what I understand, what is distinctive about Morgellons is that patients believe that strings or fibers are present in their skin as well as bugs crawling on them.
Formication is sometimes referred to as “cocaine bugs” because the crawly sensation is often found in people who abuse cocaine. I bet Hunter Biden knows all about coke bugs as well as the other activity beginning with “for-.”
Smartest guy that Brandon knows!
Formication is quite real.
But Spellcheck wanted very badly to change it to “fornication.” Go figure.
Like him or not, David Irving is a great historian of WW2.
Fond memories. My wife started watching over my shoulder when I had just started the video. She’s a trained Interior Designer, and her running comments made listening to it hard. Mostly, they involved the house that her first husband had, when she married him (they had bought a lot and were planning a new house when he died several years later). He had the beanbag chair, linoleum, well padded shag carpets, avocado appliances, sunken living room, wood paneling, etc.
I missed most of it, not owning a house until the early 1980s, at which time I bought a living room set of formal looking furniture in dark blue, with floral arrangements in the center. One of the nice things of this era of design was that sunken living rooms were very helpful with really young kids. I have fond memories of playing on the floor of a house that my previous wife and I had, that had been built in this era. My daughter delayed a bit learning to walk and climb. Instead, she would just roll around the floor to get where she wanted to go – which was nicely constrained by the sunken floor. So, I could safely nap on the sofa (see above). BTW – that house had the most glorious view of the Continental Divide – similar to the view you have driving west on I-70 west of Denver, when you go under the overpass, at the Lookout Mountain exit. The wood porch wrapped around three sides of the house, which was also wood, and likely would have gone up in an instant to a fire coming up the slope in the thick pine, spruce, and fir forest surrounding us.
My folks bought a house in the PNW, back in the 80s, which actually had bright orange shag carpeting in the dining area…… as a wall covering!
Roger:
You are either stupid or disingenuous or both.
Roger writes above “Perhaps it is the influence of David Irving and Pat Buchanan, but I don’t much like Churchill.”
THAT could well be. I suggest you try reading Brendan SIMM’s biography of “Hitler: A Global Biography.” (Although there are title variants around.)
I think it came out 2016-18, and historian Arthur Herman recommended it.
Together with Gotz Aly’s super important book “Hitler’s Beneficiaries” which closely examines German bureaucracy’s plunder and expropriation policies and practices throughout Europe during the war, those are both needed correctives for David Irving apologies.
Goring said “if there is inflation or hunger, let it not be the Germans.” Gotz Aly demonstrates — in the first book to examine the German finances and bureaucractic malfeasance — how thoroughly the old guard married to the Hitler Party made a war of expansion and plunder necessary to prevent German dissent from challenging and defeating the Nazi Party’s death grip. And thus seriously explains why the Germans fought to the bitter end.
In short, German’s succoured the socialised benefits of external conquest, plunder and systematic expropriation.
From this Bigger perspective, the plunder of Jews down to harvesting their hair and extracting gold teeth becomes just another specific horrific aspect of a greater criminal enterprise. The practice was in fact generalised by the maw of bureaucracies and financial state needs.
After Aly, Brendan Simms revisionist biography offers a serious rethink of of the Hitler you think you knew. Simms’ “Hitler” explores his pre-dictator historical and geopolitical understanding of the world, and how Hitler conceived German Teutonic civilization as a besieged Fatherland challenged at every historic turn at by the Anglosphere and a sinister USA that drained Germany’s living youthful stock out of it by gobbling up and perverting the Homeland’s emigrants — who rightfully belonged to Germany’s benefit. Yes, Hitler was a neo-Malthusian. His racialised conception of just war aimed to redeem the Teutonic race to rightful supremacy.
Thus, Hitler actually believed that by going to war, he was actually saving Civilisation from the Barbarians menace.
This is a stunning rethink to David Irving’s fantastic conception of geopolitics and prevarications that were well exposed in his London libel trial that he ignominiously lost! (See “History on Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier”, by Deborah E.Lipstadt.)
To sum up, only through Irving’s Holocaust denial could he sell the tale of German Nazi persecution by the West’s leading powers, the UK and America. His argument is that it was a war of choice, and thereby morally derelict, imposed upon Germany, and that Hitler was the moral superior to her combatants in the Anglosphere. With these two books, Aly and Simms, prove him utterly wrong.
I trust others here will find my citation provocative enough to check some out.
I remember those bright colors! Except for Kitchenaid mixers, you cannot get appliances in vibrant colors anymore…
Then the 80s came in and everything was steel grey, beige, and mauve.
yes the wansee conference was evidence enough as with everything that came after,
The brief mention of wicker and rattan furniture reminded me that the first piece of furniture I bought living on my own was a rattan easy chair. It was very comfortable and had a lacy lattice work of wicker strands ornamenting the area under arms of the chair. Unfortunately, it was a fragile lattice work and got broken up within a few years.
And now for something completely different:
Fable the Raven | 5 Year Anniversary – Falconry and Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEp3rHlj0C0
and bonus Fable time
Fable the Raven | Food puzzle fun! – Falconry and Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiPfAa_gGts
Wait until the trans Pride crowd finds out that the Unabomber thought about becoming a transwoman (to use the contemporary term) in 1967, when he was in grad school at Michigan: “Kaczynski had persistent and intense sexual fantasies about being a woman. While he was a graduate student at the University of Michigan in 1967, he went to a psychiatrist to discuss his wishes for a sex change operation. But in the waiting room, he decided he could not go forward. Instead, he told the psychiatrist he was depressed about the possibility of being drafted. His near confession of his feelings so filled him with rage, in this case directed at psychiatrists, that he went through a major transformation. . . . Kaczynski’s new hope? To take his rage out on others, including the psychiatrist. ‘I will kill,’ Kaczynski wrote. ‘But I will make at least some effort to avoid detection so that I can kill again.'”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/09/12/gender-confusion-sex-change-idea-fueled-kaczynskis-rage-report-says/eb33b946-8595-427d-af4c-9ccaada45935/
Okay, it’s a WaPo article from 1998, but it may evoke sympathy for the Unabomber among the usual suspects. Poor Ted– if only people had been more enlightened in 1967, he could have become a transwoman and tried out for the Michigan women’s swim team.
Re Roger and his admiration for Irving, and neo’s rebuke, Wikipedia does a primer on the libel trial.
His abuse of facts and torturing of the Truth is outrageous and disturbing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_trial
Presented if anyone wishes to be cued up.
Some good news in case you missed it. Four children with ages from 13 years to a baby of 11 months survived 40 days in the jungle in Colombia after an airplane crash.
“Officials praised the courage of the eldest of the children, a girl, who they said had some knowledge of how to survive in the rainforest and led her siblings through the ordeal.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/colombia-children-survival-jungle-food-1.6872649
From the “Heh!” Files…
“SPLC director who placed parents’ rights group on ‘hate map’ met with Biden counterterror official: report”—
https://nypost.com/2023/06/11/splc-director-susan-corke-met-with-white-house-counterterrorism-official/
Yep, business as usual for the “Biden” Banana-republic Bloc… AKA “Making America Safer” AKA “Protecting Our Democracy” AKA “UNIFYING OUR NATION”!!
+ Bonus;
“Dylan Mulvaney Now Blackmailing Corporations By Threatening To Endorse Their Products”—
https://babylonbee.com/news/dylan-mulvaney-now-blackmailing-corporations-by-threatening-to-endorse-their-products
H/T Instapundit.
Geert van de Boosche’s latest.
VERY “Sciencey”at times—but you will get the message,
and the Cleveland Clinic rheumatologists does summaries after Dr. van de Boosche speaks.
(A number of the rheumatologists–the physicians who are experts in immunology– in my community kept their patients from being injected. We have a lower than average number of system/corporate employed physicians here.)
The FACTS are that the most injected have the MOST impaired immune systems.
Get information, and act accordingly.
flccc.net
remains on top of things.
(And we can hope this time , his prediction is incorrect. We do need to note that, if that is the case, it will be for the first time in three years.)
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/covid-19-is-still-spreadingwhat-now
PA Cat, the Unabomber died about 15 miles from me, in the federal prison hospital in Butner, NC, where he had been moved from the Colorado supermax prison. Now my husband can go fishing up at the lake in Butner without fear of the bomber. 🙂 Like many serial killers, he was obviously mentally disturbed, although not psychotic. His lawyers reportedly wanted to use the insanity defense, but he fired them and pleaded guilty.
Sunday Open Thread: Military stuff with some mention of the Russo – Ukraine war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A31fegpaAI
The race for long-range fires, Is the US army outranged? – missiles, cannons & Long-range precision – Perun
Timestamps:
00:00:00 — Long Range Artillery & MLRS – Is The US Army Outgunned?
00:02:37 — What Am I Talking About?
00:03:34 — Sponsor: Ground News
00:04:33 — Long Range Fires
00:10:59 — The Long Range Fire Role
00:12:41 — Lessons From Ukraine
00:16:54 — The Big-gun Competition
00:20:52 — Ground Launched Missiles
00:26:18 — Why Did The US Fall Behind?
00:34:09 — Long Range Precision Fires
00:36:50 — Extending Gun Reach
00:43:29 — Next Generation Missiles
00:58:56 — Changing Force Design
01:01:13 — Counters & Implications
01:04:48 — Conclusions
01:06:02 — Channel Update
Dr. “COULD-ONLY-BE-NATURAL-ORIGIN” Fauci was not / is not / will never be…available for comment…
(And where is Dr. Deborah when you really need ‘er…?)
“Scientists working at Wuhan Institute of Virology alongside Chinese military ‘were combining world’s most deadly coronaviruses to create mutant strain capable of sparking a pandemic just before the Covid outbreak began’;
“Investigators say Covid-19 was developed through a series of risky experiments;
“The virus was leaked from the Wuhan lab and covered up due to its military links—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12182513/Scientists-Wuhan-combining-worlds-deadly-coronaviruses-outbreak-Covid-19.html
Not to worry, though. Just another Democratic Party coverup…
+ Bonus:
“‘They have blood on their hands’: Liberal California parents whose children died from fentanyl overdoses blame ‘extreme left’ policies for making America’s drug crisis WORSE;
“Parents whose children’s lives have been ruined by the crippling fentanyl epidemic blame ‘extreme, far-left’ Democrats for blocking bids to tackle crisis ;
“Fentanyl kills about 110 Californians each week, 5.5 percent of the country;
“Families of fentanyl addicts in San Francisco have blasted the city’s mayor for spending millions on ‘safe consumption sites’ that they say keep addicts hooked”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12165929/Liberal-Californians-say-extreme-left-policies-making-fentanyl-crisis-WORSE.html
Re: Ted Kaczynski, “Unabomber”
While at Harvard Kaczynski was a subject in an MK-ULTRA study on brainwashing, which likely involved LSD as well, though that is not established. CIA Director Richard Helms had all MK-ULTRA documents destroyed.
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Project MKULTRA was the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) mind control program that used LSD and hypnosis techniques to brainwash individuals. Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was a participant in one of Henry Murray’s experiments at Harvard where Murray’s team bullied, harassed, and psychologically broke down participants. Henry Murray had previously worked for the CIA’s predecessor and may have been funded by the clandestine MKULTRA program…
From 1959-1962, Murray conducted such interrogation studies on Harvard undergraduates (Chase, 2000). Theodore Kaczynski, who later became known as The Unabomber, was one of the 22 participants in Murray’s study, subjected to several years of interrogations designed to psychologically break the young man.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-conservative-social-psychologist/202004/us-government-mind-control-experiments
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[Kaczyncki was] subjected to several years of interrogations designed to psychologically break the young man.
What could go wrong?
While going down the Kaczynski rabbit hole (again), I ran into an online interview with Rick Doblin, a friend of a friend while I was at New College. You can see Doblin’s NOVO COLLEGIUM shirt, which in Latin means New College.
–“Ted Kaczynski took LSD as part of MKUltra | Rick Doblin and Lex Fridman”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3aHoJEbVRw
Doblin is the founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). If you follow current psychedelic news, you’ve likely heard of MAPS. I remember him as a good guy and he’s found a meaningful life with impact. He’s a great poster child for New College.
(Another is David Allen, author of “Getting Things Done” and its spin-off workshops.)
New College is the progressive college which DeSantis has targeted for reshaping into a more conservative school like Hillsdale, causing a certain amount of umbrage in that community.
Interesting. The Iron Heel comes down on New College … or so they will consider it.
An impressive crater (henceforth named “Roger”) has appeared on the solar system map.
Meanwhile, Joe Rogan rises to defend much-maligned TGP:
Joe Rogan Defends The Gateway Pundit – Discusses Our Report on Cleveland Clinic Peer-Reviewed Study on COVID Vaccines vs. Infection Rate (VIDEO)
The peer-reviewed study, which was reported by The Gateway Pundit earlier this month states, “The risk of COVID-19 also varied by the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses previously received. The higher the number of vaccines previously received, the higher the risk of contracting COVID-19.”
I counted “peer-reviewed” in the article 4 times, along with an 8+ minute Rogan segment on Rumble.
Correction: Including the title, make that 5 appearances of “peer-reviewed”.
Kate–
My Unabomber story goes back to the summer of 1993, when one of Kaczynski’s bombs went off in the office of David Gelernter, a professor of computer science whose building was only two blocks from the office of a psychiatrist where I had a part-time job as a research associate. Gelernter survived only because he was only a block from the university health center, meaning he could run there for help before he bled out (as it was, he lost the use of his right hand, and his right eye was permanently damaged). My then-boss and I knew something had happened within a few minutes of the explosion because of the noise of sirens speeding toward the health center and cops on foot running up and down nearby streets. Two of them knocked on the door of our office, asked if we had seen any “suspicious people,” and told us not to leave the building until we heard the all-clear. It took a few hours for us to find out exactly what had happened.
David Gelernter’s brother Joel is a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at the medical school. Some people think that he was the real target of the Unabomber’s wrath because he got a phone call (most likely a prank call) shortly after the explosion that injured his brother from someone who told him he was next. Both brothers were lucky in that Kaczynski’s last two targets were both killed.
I am unsure how to react to the latest reports of UFO sightings and seized UFOs and space alien corpses. Should I stock up on ammo or Stephen Spielberg movies?
that tribute one by aj abrams, super 8, I think
im skeptical, in part because I think the aliens have blackballed this planet wouldn’t you,
PA+Cat:
Geez. I’d forgotten that David Gelernter was *that* Unabomber victim. I’m a Gelernter fan, though I can never spell his name right.
Folks, keep an eye peeled for anything Gelernter says. One of the few outspoken conservative voices in academia, quite brilliant.
whitey bulger was also supposedly a subject as well, i guess that explains his jeckyll and hyde transformation, sarc, it probably sharpened his latent sociopathics skills, which he had to in order to compete with the likes of mueller weld delahunt as well as the bureau complement, morris and connolly,
I am unsure how to react to the latest reports of UFO sightings and seized UFOs and space alien corpses.
Jordan Rivers:
I recommend Firesign Theatre’s instructional military video:
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Here’s the official stolen government training film with the secret plan to deal with an alien uprising.
CLASSIFIED ULTRA-SECRET
AIR FORCE GENERALS ONLY
This is Gen. Curtis Goatheart. If you are viewing this film then we are under extraterrestrial attack.
Beware. Your brain may no longer be the boss. If you are beginning to doubt what I am saying, you are probably hallucinating. Listen carefuly.
WHAT TO DO IF AN ALIEN APPEARS:
(1) Drop under the seat of your plane and look away.
(2) Avoid eye contact.
(3) If there are no eyes, avoid all contact.
–Firesign Theatre, “Everything You Know Is Wrong”
https://youtu.be/dAcHfymgh4Y?t=1516
___________________________________
Words to the wise.
Your brain may not be the boss.
Banned Lizard:
That quote from the Cleveland Clinic study is taken out of context. Here is the entire study. And here’s a more extensive series of quotes, with my remarks interpolated:
So first of all, we have a population nearly half of which has had detected COVID and the immunity that having COVID grants. A lot more may have had undetected COVID. It is also a population in which the vast majority (83%) has had two vaccines. Is the small unvaccinated group also healthier in general, or more likely to have had COVID already (possibly undetected but still conferring more immunity)? And what about health status and comorbid conditions such as obesity in the unvaccinated versus the vaccinated and boosted group? There is no reason to assume that the vaccinated/boosted population resembles the unvaccinated, or the less vaccinated population, in terms of natural susceptibility or immunity, or acquired immunity through having had COVID. Therefore comparing the two populations is not especially meaningful unless you control for those things (Later I’ll get to the results of the researchers’ attempts to control for some of the differences between the groups).
Another quote:
So the study found that the bivalent vaccinated state (that means having had at least one booster) does lower the risk, and although that lowered risk decreases over time, it still remains a lowered risk.
The paper says that vaccines were very effective against the early variants, but had reduced effectiveness over Omicron, and the bivalent vaccines (that is, the boosters) were developed at that point to combat Omicron and were approved in August of 2022.
The study did show – as previously stated – that although the boosters were effective, the most vaccinated and boosted people had a higher rate of contracting COVID. However, once differences in populations were corrected for, the boosters still had an overall protective value [emphasis added]:
It’s not fabulous protection, but it is protection. Note that general health status or traits such as obesity were not corrected for, so the population of people who had been less boosted versus those who had been more boosted may have differed on those factors.
What the study may be saying, however, is that getting boosted over and over again may be worthless or even somewhat counterproductive. However, only 8% of the people in the study had two or more boosters. That’s an interesting finding; I’d like to know what if anything differentiated those people from the others who didn’t have so many boosters. It may have been something significant that was not tapped into by the study.
In summary, the study found boosters conferred a benefit, but that getting multiple boosters may not confer a benefit.
Also, the researchers said that so few people in the study had serious cases of COVID at akk that they couldn’t compare on that score.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/11/russia-arrests-american-rock-singer-moscow-drug-dealing/
Who feeds these people? The new face of extremism unmasked: The UN and Republicans are watching ‘trantifa’ – the hard-left transgender activists who flirt with violence to promote their radical agenda https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4160117/posts
More Unabomber…
Ted Kaczynski was a pretty broken guy by the time put on his hoodie and dark glasses and became the Unabomber.
In addition to his MKULTRA experience at Harvard, as an infant he developed a severe case of hives. The hospital doctors put him in isolation off-and-on for eight months. His parents were only allowed short visits twice a week. Otherwise, he had almost no human interaction.
His mother said he was never the same afterward.
However, he was so bright he skipped two grades. As a result, he could not fit in socially with the older kids now his peers.
Combined with MKULTRA, all this sounds like a great recipe for driving a child/young adult into an alienated angry sociopath.
huxley–
More about Kaczynski’s experiences with Henry Murray at Hahvahd: Murray was a pretty messed-up guy in his own right. In 1923 he had been married for 7 years when he met Christiana Morgan, an artist, writer, and amateur psychoanalyst. Murray started an affair with Morgan (who was also married) but felt conflicted about it because he did not want to leave his wife. Morgan had meanwhile become fascinated with Jungian psychology and urged Murray to study Jung’s works. In 1927, she persuaded Murray to travel to Switzerland with her to be analyzed by Jung in person.
You might remember that I mentioned Philip Rieff’s takedown of Jung a few weeks back in the context of Jung’s recommending spouse-swapping among his patients. Well, long story short, Herr Doktor Jung encouraged Murray and Morgan to continue their extramarital affair “to unlock their unconscious and their creativity.”
Back at Hahvahd, Murray and Morgan developed a projective psychological test called the Thematic Apperception Test or TAT, which consists of a series of pictures shown to the test subject, who is asked to make up a story about each picture in order to demonstrate his/her capacity for fantasy. I had to take the TAT at one point during grad school, and a sillier exercise in mind probing would be hard to devise.
Morgan had been first author on the earliest version of the TAT, but Murray gradually eased her out of her co-authorship in the later versions. He stayed with her, however, and was the one who found her body when she drowned in shallow water on a beach in the Virgin Islands in 1967. Morgan had been a heavy drinker for years; it is still unclear whether her death was an accident or suicide.
Another interesting fact about the couple: Murray had commissioned the French sculptor Gaston Lachaise to create a nude portrait statue of Morgan. It is now owned by the Governor’s Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts. There is your French connection for the day.
And now you have a fuller picture of the man who drove Ted Kaczynski over the brink.
didn’t murray work for the oss at one point, volpi that very inventive mexican writer i’ve referenced, wrote a novel about murray and jung if memory serves
huxley on June 11, 2023 at 8:10 pm said:
“Folks, keep an eye peeled for anything Gelernter says. One of the few outspoken conservative voices in academia, quite brilliant.”
He may well be very good in computer science, but he appears to have missed a step here: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/giving-up-darwin/
Giving Up Darwin [2019]
Jerry Coyne refutes his position here:
https://quillette.com/2019/09/09/david-gelernter-is-wrong-about-ditching-darwin/
David Gelernter is Wrong About Ditching Darwin [2019]
R2L:
I have doubts about Darwin myself and found “Giving Up Darwin” interesting. I’ve read some critiques too. I find those interesting, though not finally persuasive.
I don’t have enough motivation or time to book myself on the subject. I’ve got enough on my hands learning French….
This week I find myself hearing French noticeably better. Yay!
From the “We Have One Set of Laws in This country, and They Apply To Everyone” [ROTFLH] Files…
( https://www.c-span.org/video/?528657-1/special-counsel-jack-smith-delivers-statement-indictment-president-trump )
…Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen (of any and all persuasions), and any of you Aliens from Outer Space who happen to visiting!—WE present!
“The feds already have all the evidence they need to charge Biden with bribery to change our policy in Ukraine”—
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/the_feds_already_have_all_the_evidence_they_need_to_charge_biden_with_bribery_to_change_our_policy_in_ukraine.html
Maricopa Country redux…
Somebody’s lying here—surprise!!.
(Now who would you place your bet on?)
“Voting machine printer company says Maricopa Election Day report ‘inaccurate,’ seeks correction;
“The printer company said Maricopa County did not contact them during the investigation into Election Day printer issues.”—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/printer-company-disputes-factually-inaccurate-election-day-error-claims
Opening grafs:
‘A [Japanese] printer company says a report by Arizona’s Maricopa County on errors at voting centers on Election Day 2022 is “factually inaccurate” and is seeking a correction from the county attorney’s office….’
RE: COVID–
It was a lab leak at Wuhan.*
* See https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/case-closed-it-was-a-lab-leak.php
the weaver of dreams, probably referring to jung, the translator did a better job in english, than in volpi’s native tongue,
in the third volume of mahfouz’s palace walk series, the son of the patriarch returns from paris with samples of some of the literature he is considering publishing, the father is aghast, because it contains the work of darwin, which is a grave offense to the beliefs of many believing moslems, not long after the setting in this novel, in the early 20, the Muslim brotherhood came into existence, the ones who worked with Sadat’s Free Officers, to try to topple the British allied government, then they went after Nasser,
Darwin, Marx and Freud, were the gateway to the return of the Old Gods in this country, in a similar way, dethroning the God given Truth we had abided by for Generations,
Well, first off, these pix are all from “Homes & Garden” adverts, not actual homes. I’d say these were generally a lot more obnoxious than the actual human-created end-results, that added elements to give them more light and contrast.
Second, as someone else noted, it was vinyl flooring that they are talking of, not linoleum. One minor benefit to the vinyl floors is that the vinyl was intentionally spongy (marginally, I grant), so it was softer to the bare foot than the older linoleum.
Now, linoleum countertops were still pretty common, as linoleum stood up to counter-top style wear adequately.
And it mentions a “rake” for the shag? Seriously? Maybe someone used those, but I don’t recall EVER seeing anything of the sort in the 60s OR the 70s.
The 70s was the “Me” decade, as the 60s “revolutionaries” settled in and took charge of things in exactly the manner they had sworn they’d never accommodate to, that they were “revolting” against. :-/
It was the beginning of the mess we are now in the middle of.
I think my favorite spoof of the lifestyle was at the very end of the 70s, 1980, actually, which was nominally set in Marin County, Cali, right near Haight-Ashbury, where the “revolution” was centered.
Martin Mull’s “Serial”:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0081485/
Much is made of the “Unibomber’s” participation in gubbmint drug studies, but many now conduct their own drug experiments with unknown street drugs. Many of the violent mass killers were supposedly on “psychiatric medications” with unknown long term side effects. New generations of pharmaceuticals hit the “streets” with no testing at all. “Marijuana” is unlikely to be just marijuana, even that of the more potent varieties. Agricultural and pharmaceutical sprays are cheap and convenient, a# well as potent. The behavior of the young “Progressives” should come as no surprise considering all of the “self medication”.